In 2005, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) received a mandate from the European Commission to review the existing advice of the Scientific Committee for Food (SCF) published in 1993 on Dietary Reference Values (DRVs) for energy, macro- and micronu ...

Previous studies on the safety of caffeine have been published by the Scientific Committee on Food (SCF) in 1983, 1999 and 2003. In the latter assessment, the SCF concluded that caffeine would not exacerbate the adverse effects of alcohol. A recent study ...

For this review a comprehensive literature search was carried out to identify human intervention studies, which investigated the effect of differences in composition of low and very low calorie diets on adverse metabolic effects. We identified 2653 papers ...

Nivalenol (NIV) and deoxynivalenol (DON) are structurally related mycotoxins produced by Fusarium fungi. These fungi typically infest cereal crops such as wheat, maize, barley, oats and rye, and NIV and DON are regularly found in cereal grains, food and f ...